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- From: Andy.Taylor@brunel.ac.uk (Andy J Taylor)
- Newsgroups: alt.magic
- Subject: Re: How is this trick done?
- Message-ID: <Bxv3Iz.KwA@brunel.ac.uk>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:16:09 GMT
- References: <28234@castle.ed.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Henley Management College, UK
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- In article <28234@castle.ed.ac.uk> marks@castle.ed.ac.uk (Mark Steyn) writes:
-
- >
- >The trick is as follows:
- >
- >The magician/whomever takes a pack of cards, unmarked from what I could
- >gather. He selects a volunteer/victim and places two cards, red an
- >black, face in front of him/her.
- >
- >The magician then proceeds to pick cards one by one from various
- >positions in the deck, each time holding it in front of the volunteer/victim,
- >asking him/her to guess whether the card is red or black, and places it face
- >down on top of red/black cards selected earlier depending on the colour.
- >Only the magician sees actual colour of the cards.
-
- No. The victim deals the cards from the deck one at a time and
- chooses their colour without anyone looking at them. Halfway through
- the cards, two more 'index cards' are used, the red one being placed
- on the black pile and the black one on the red pile. (This is for
- technical reasons)
-
- >
- >After so many cards have been placed in each pile, the magician turns
- >over both piles to reveal, to the volunteer/victims surprise, that he/she
- >has guessed the colour of the cards with 100% accuracy.
- >
- >
- >I would be grateful if anybody could enlighten me as to how the trick is
- >performed. Hints will be accepted happily too :-)
- >
- > Mark
-
- This is 'Out Of This World' by Paul Curry(?)
- it is widely published, it even appeared in a book for kids over here.
-
- It is said that Winston Churchill demanded to see this trick 6 times
- in a row and still couldn't work out how it was done.
-
- Andy
-
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